Man gets 2 years on drug sales plea

The last of four people arrested by Taft Police and a Kern County narcotics enforcement team to be sentenced got a two-year jail term for a drug trafficking charge.

Alex Vasquez, 43, was the only one of the four people arrested in the raid of a home on Stevens Street in October to face the drug trafficking charges.

The other three faced less severe counts.

Vasquez pleaded no contest to one count of possession of a controlled substance for sale of a controlled substance and five other counts, including cultivating marijuana. Possession of marijuana for sale and maintaining a house for the sale of narcotics, were dropped.

Vasquez was sentenced Tuesday in Taft branch of Kern County Superior Court.